Eugenides books7/4/2023 (It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award 2002's "Middlesex" won the Pulitzer.)īut while Franzen seems to agonize over perception, over Oprah, Eugenides radiates no such angst. "The Marriage Plot" (just available in paperback) made plenty of top-10 lists but was shut out from the list of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists - stoking arguments about whether those awards were out of touch with readers. Indeed, Eugenides - like Jonathan Franzen - is that rare writer so successful with both readers and critics that he tends to be at the center of debates that have nothing to do with his work. The billboard, promoting Eugenides' latest novel, "The Marriage Plot," spawned its own Twitter feed and lots of jealousy among other writers - even a parody earlier this year by Jennifer Weiner. He looks more professorial (albeit a professor with a porny mustache) than that cocksure author who spent parts of last fall on a Times Square billboard, clad in an almost jaunty vest.
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